Era Of Convergence Research Articles

Dakwah di Era Konvergensi Media

The problem of dakwah in this era of media convergence lies still in the poor competence of da’i in using advanced communication technology, such as in using online journalism and Internet facilities. This problem can be easily identified in the fact that dakwah tends to involve only limited kinds of media, since media competence among Muslim clerics is severely low. If anything, the involvement of modern media does not give any enlightenment, tends to be merely oriented to entertainment, tends to be forced on, and conveys misleading messages. Hence, there have to be creative efforts that are capable of integrating the quality of dakwah, on the one hand, and the character of media, on the other.

Beyond Canned Television

The October of 2018 saw the creation of BBC Earth Tribe, a global online brand representing BBC Natural History Unit (NHU)’s programming on Tencent Video, one of China’s leading online streaming services. Besides providing over 650 hours of BBC documentaries to Chinese online audiences, BBC Earth Tribe delivers unprecedented access to creators from BBC NHU through interactive screen forms and offline events. This article offers a study of BBC Earth’s global strategies in its partnerships with one of the largest Chinese digital platforms, Tencent, in terms of coproduction and online community building beyond traditional canned television distribution. It examines Project Penguin, which has formalised coproduction partnerships between BBC Studios and Tencent Online Media Group (OMG) since October 2018. The distribution partnerships involve not only pre-sales of BBC Earth’s flagship documentaries but also coproduction and online community building on Tencent-run platforms, from streaming services to social media platforms. By examining BBC Earth’s distribution strategies in the Chinese media landscape from the early 2000s, the paper aims to theorise distribution strategies between BBC Studios and Tencent Video and its socio-cultural implications on television distribution in the digital, multiplatform era of convergence.

Między kinem a reklamą. Semantyczne przestrzenie zwiastuna filmowego

Trailers are the theatre of the good things coming soon. Since the status of the trailer in the media and cultural space is constantly changing, the question can be asked: What is a trailer in the era of media convergence? It seems to exist somewhere between cinema and advertising, in a wide range of art and commerce, but in a situation where fan trailers and parody trailers are becoming more and more sophisticated and imitative of the real thing, even these criteria are losing their usefulness, and all the more so if you point out advertisements that, conversely, pretend to be film trailers.
 The first part of the article will determine how important the trailers are in the marketing strategy of a film. The production of trailers is an important segment of the advertising industry. It is crucial to construct the trailer in such a way as to attract the audience’s attention and convince them that the film being advertised is the one they should see. To achieve this, the creators of trailers use similar strategies, conventions and tools. This article will set out to present views of the leading trailer makers: Andrew J. Kuehn, Shaun Farrington, Mark Woollen and Anthony Sloman. In the latter part of the text, the issues of the film trailer will be placed in the broader context of the cultural space in which it exists and functions. The main areas of research on trailers will be presented (featuring Lisa Kernan, Keith M. Johnston, Jonathan Gray, Daniel Hesford, Barbara Klinger, Kathleen Williams, among others), consistently leading to reflection on the paratextual nature of the trailers, embedded in contemporary theoretical discourse and in the screen practices themselves.

The Influence of Private and Public Self-Consciousness of College Students on Vocational Identity in Convergence era: Testing the Mediating Effects of Academic Self-Efficacy

The Influence of Private and Public Self-Consciousness of College Students on Vocational Identity in Convergence era: Testing the Mediating Effects of Academic Self-Efficacy

문화융합의 시대에 ‘문화지향의 디자인’을 위한 교차문화적 디자인 방법론의 이론적 프레임워크에 관한 연구

문화융합의 시대에 ‘문화지향의 디자인’을 위한 교차문화적 디자인 방법론의 이론적 프레임워크에 관한 연구

Luxury Fashion Brands Embracing the Digital: An Exploratory Study to Unfold the Success Strategy

The era of digital environment and digital convergence has examined a paradigm shift in the marketing world of luxury fashion brands. Luxury fashion brands are showing keen interest in comprehending digital transformation to create omni-channel experience for the shoppers. The utmost purpose of this study is to explore the digital strategies luxury fashion brands are embracing and their influence on the brand's performance. The data has been collected and analysed by reviewing various secondary data sources such as journal articles and combined with case studies of leading international luxury fashion brands. The research design of the study is exploratory in nature. During research it was found that the ‘right’ digital strategy differs for every brand: it can be a well-designed user friendly website or banner ads, going mobile or engaging customers through social media, new content or imagery. This paper is first of its kind study and will be beneficial for marketing practitioners in devising their digital strategies; for researchers and academicians the study will unfold an opportunity to look at the subject as a field of consumer studies.

Navigating a product landscape for technology opportunity analysis: A word2vec approach using an integrated patent-product database

Technology opportunity analysis has been the subject of many prior studies, although most of them have focused on discovering new technology ideas in a single narrow domain. This study proposes a product landscape analysis to identify product areas (i.e., potential technology opportunities) across multiple domains that firms can enter based on the technological capabilities embodied in their existing products. First, text mining is used to construct an integrated patent-product database from the United States patent and trademark database. Second, word2vec is employed to construct a product landscape as a vector space model where products with similar technological bases are located close to each other while maintaining the technological relationships. Third, given a product of interest, potential technology opportunities are identified via (1) automatic opportunity analysis that identifies product areas with technological bases similar to those of the product; and (2) interactive opportunity analysis that finds product areas based on experts’ queries modifying the technological bases of the product (i.e., addition and subtraction). Finally, ten quantitative indexes are developed to explore the implications of the potential technology opportunities identified. The case study covering 3,016,315 patents and 160,832 products confirms that the proposed approach is valuable as a creativity support tool for technology opportunity analysis in the era of convergence.

Education Direction of Regional Dialect in the Era of Cultural Convergence

Education Direction of Regional Dialect in the Era of Cultural Convergence

HOAX AND THE CRISIS OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION-PUBLIC SPHERE

Digital media development makes easier for everyone to share information. One of the visible characteristics is the change of audience role to be more active in the convergence era. At this point, hoax comes, such as vaccine danger which massively spreads in 2017-2018. The hoax case content is about kinds of concern, such as health clinical sense, work of digital media, to religious dogma. The article studies the vaccine danger polemic in 2017-2018, from the kinds of hoax appearance to the crisis of the health communication-public sphere in the digital era. This study finds that: First, new media offers people more personal communication space where they can be a consumer and producer of information at once. Second, a clinical sense of health becomes a claim for being right that makes people trust scientific logic and eliminate critical attitude to manipulative works. Third, the health information gap and lack of people's understanding of medical and technical terms make them active consumers who look for information independently through digital media. Fourth, people concern about health information needs so they pay attention to see, read, and even share information. Fifth, hoax with certain interest tends to purpose on fake news that spreads in social media massively. Sixth, insufficient digital literacy in society makes them lost in mass information in the new media era. To cite this article (7 th APA style): Praptiningsih, W. & Kurnia, N. (2020). Hoax and the Crisis of Communication-Public Sphere. Journal Communication Spectrum, 10 (1), 1-9. http://doi.org/10.36782/jcs.v10i1.2002

Regulation and the Geography of Inequality

We live in an era of widening geographic inequality. Around the country, the spread between economically and culturally thriving places and those that are struggling has been increasing. “Superstar” cities like New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Atlanta continue to attract talent and grow, while the economies of other cities and rural areas are left behind. Troublingly, escalating geographic inequality in the United States has arrived hand-in-hand with serious economic, social, and political problems. Areas that are left behind have not only failed to keep up with their thriving peers; in many ways they have stagnated and seen opportunities evaporate. At the same time, superstar cities are running up against extreme housing affordability problems, rendering middle-class life all but unsustainable. To make matters worse, the widening gulf between dynamic and stagnant places increasingly feeds into a democratic crisis of unrepresentative government at the federal level. The dominant explanations for widening geographic inequality focus largely on inexorable economic trends. Forces like “agglomeration effects” and globalization have reshaped the economy, benefitting some areas and harming others. We think these explanations leave out a crucial factor: the effects of specific regulatory choices on economic geography. The Progressive Era and New Deal regulatory order in the United States promoted geographic dispersion in economic activity. The unraveling of this regulatory order around 1980 coincided with the reversal in geographic convergence and the beginning of an era of growing divergence. More specifically, regulatory policies in the areas of transportation, communications, trade, and antitrust helped construct an era of geographic convergence in the mid-twentieth century and deregulation in those same areas contributed to the rise of geographic inequality over the last generation. To combat geographic inequality and its attendant downsides, we make the case for reincorporating geographic factors into federal regulatory policymaking in transportation, communications, trade, antitrust, and other domains.

Improve Understanding and Dissemination of Disaster Management and Climate Change by Using Knowledge Management Systems

In Law Number 24 Year 2007 concerning Disaster Management, it is stated that the central government and regional governments are responsible for implementing disaster management, with an emphasis on preparedness and mitigation in dealing with natural disasters, as well as based on the provisions of article 1 of Presidential Regulation No. 46 of 2008 concerning the National Council on Climate Change that climate change is a change in average conditions of climate and / or climate diversity from one period of time to another as a result of human activity. However, the socialization of these two matters is not regulated in existing laws and regulations, so that the information dissemination plan and dissemination of the information must be carried out to the community itself. In line with developments in technology and information systems that have entered the era of media convergence, the acceleration of the process of spreading government programs can also be done by using this technology. The SECI method model (Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization) was developed through implementation based on the ‘Knowledge Management System Cycle’ theory, so that a knowledge management system was formed. The results of research on community preparedness in the application of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) for natural disaster preparedness and mitigation can be used to support the dissemination and dissemination of disaster management mitigation, global warming, and community-based climate change, including performance measurement of success.

Far-End Crosstalk Mitigation for Future Wireline Networks Beyond G.mgfast: A Survey and an Outlook

With the escalating demand for high speed, high reliability, low latency, low cost and ubiquitous connectivity, the telecommunications industry is entering a new era where the ultimate optimality of the current wireline-wireless access network has to be achieved. Regarding the current wireline network paradigm, dominated by the copper-based digital subscriber lines (DSL) technology, multi-Gigabit data rate is the ambitious design objective at the customer end for the forthcoming ITU-T G.mgfast standard. In order to prepare for the new challenges in the era of total network convergence, both the wireline and the wireless community must be able to think beyond their respective conventions and learn from each other if necessary. Overall, the current DSL-based wireline network architecture is prone to the mutual interference resulting in far-end crosstalk (FEXT). The newly expanded 424/848 MHz spectrum of the ambitious G.mgfast project introduces far higher FEXT than that over the current 212/30 MHz G.fast/VDSL2 band. Additionally, the coexistence of multiple standards will also cause `alien' FEXT. In these cases, using the plain zero forcing precoding (ZFP) will no longer attain a sufficiently high performance. However, as shown in the field of wireless communications, using lattice reduction as a signal space remapping technique significantly improves the performance of traditional multi-user detectors (MUD) and of the respective multi-user precoders (MUP). These promising techniques have largely remained unexploited in commercial wireless communications, due to their complexity in the face of the rapidly fluctuating wireless channels. In this survey, we present an overview of the state-of-the-art in wireline access network and an outlook for recent technological advances in the holistic `wireline + wireless' access network in the context of network convergence, focusing on the dominant challenge of FEXT mitigation in future DSL networks. Against this background, we investigate both the family of linear precoding and of the Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) schemes conceived for classic DSL. Furthermore, we present a tutorial on the family of lattice reduction aided MUPs, as well as quantifying their expected performances in realistic DSL scenarios. As a by-product, we also demonstrate the duality between MUP and MUD, in the hope that the fifty years' history of MUD could be used to accelerate the development of efficient near-optimal MUPs for future DSL. Under the recommended operating conditions of the 212 MHz profile of G.fast, our benchmark comparisons indicate that the lattice reduction aided techniques are very powerful compared to conventional schemes. In particular, their good performances do not rely on optimized spectrum balancing, and they are also shown to be relatively robust against channel state information (CSI) estimation error, under the assumption of perfectly time-invariant DSL channels.

Reconstruction of Chinese Media and Audience Relationship

With the advancement of mobile internet technology and new media technology, China has entered the era of media convergence, and the relationship between audiences and media is also quietly changing. Chinese media reconstructed their relationship with audiences by innovative ways of new media technology. Through combing and researching a large number of practical cases, the article has sorted out how the Chinese media can realize the emotional interaction and relationship reconstruction between the media and the audience through the reform and innovation of expression forms, narrative methods, and communication channels.

An Analysis of the Innovation Path of Journalism and Communication Education in Chinese Universities in the Era of Media Convergence

Based on the new ecological media integration formed by new media technology, China’s journalism education has begun to explore innovative practices of training concepts and training models. This article, while briefly sorting out these innovation paths, puts forward its own views. The new ecological media integration spawned by Internet technology has put forward brand-new requirements for journalism and communication education in Chinese universities. Facing the changes in demand for news media talents by media convergence, journalism and communication education in Chinese colleges and universities, which focuses on cultivating traditional media talents, need to update concepts, innovate methods, improve systems, and change traditional teaching models in order to cultivate journalism and communication talents needed in the media convergence era.

Divergences in the European Union

The economic differences between the regions of the European Union are a continuous concern for both politics and economic research. Starting with 1990, the European economy, embedded in turn in the economic events that occur at global level, is entering a new era of convergence, where GDP per capita in emerging and developing countries as a whole started to outperform those of the advanced economies, from which we could draw the real convergence nature of the events. In the EU, since the EMU establishment and the implementation of the single monetary policy, nominal convergence has been and continues to be far more prominent than real convergence. This paper aims to carry out an analysis of divergences and convergences in the European Union based on research on the various theories available in the literature and on the current situations of European countries.

PEMANFAATAN MEDIA SOSIAL TWITTER @METROTVTODAY DALAM MEMBANGUN ENGAGEMENT DENGAN PEMIRSA PROGRAM “PRIME TALK” DI METRO TV

This research examines The Utilization of Social Media Twitter in Building Engagement with the audience of "Prime Talk" program on Metro TV. Program talk show which airs at prime time 19:05 – 20:00 WIB, started to utilize social media in the era of media convergence to publish the contents of the program in a way of live tweet. To analyze the results of the research, this research uses the framework of utilizing social media (content, monitoring, amplify, lead) which was stated by McKinsey and engagement structure (consumption, curation, creation, collaboration) stated by Evan & Mckee. The Researcher uses a post-positivistic paradigm with a qualitative approach and descriptive research. The data collection techniques used is observation and interviews. The results conducted indicate that the use of social media twitter has not been done properly so the “Prime Talk” program has not been able to produce the highest level of engagement with it’s viewers on social media.

THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS IN THE UNITED STATES: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CRITICAL QUESTION

In the present article a subject matter that has attracted great interest over the recent decades is discussed. The critical question of the likelihood of adopting the International Financial Reporting Standards in the United States has raised a lot of debates around the world. The problem has been the focus of long-lasting and profound deliberations among both scientific and professional community.Our research found out that the strategic goal of reaching one single set of global accounting standards through the project of convergence developed by the most influential Boards in the world – the International Accounting Standards Board located in London with second headquarters in Tokyo, and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board has not been achieved. It is appropriate to emphasize that the realisation of the convergence project began in 2002 as a result of the Norwalk agreement achieved in September 2002, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. However, it is increasingly recognized that the era of convergence is coming to an end.Prominent scholars argue that the strategic goal turned out to be neither practical nor achievable in the foreseeable future. For the time being the authorized American institutions do not intend to fully adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the IASB into the U.S. financial reporting system. Moreover the authoritative organizations in the United States attempt to continue keeping in line with specifics of the U.S. business environment. It is assumed that the Securities and Exchange Commission will never perhaps risk causing a political storm by yielding the control on its accounting to an institution outside the USA.An essential reason that causes inconveniences in the implementation of the IASB’s accounting standards and the principles is that the accounting standards interact in different ways with national laws, social and ethic codes, domestic fiscal rules and guidelines, and that is unavoidable. However, in each state and jurisdiction the interaction has its essentials and specifics. Complications may arise out of the local tradition, culture and historical continuity in performing accounting as a practice as well as by the legal doctrine and the degree of their interrelation. No less important are the essence and peculiarities of the national legal and accounting system, the extent of cultural impacts on the contemporary development of accounting as well as the principles on the basis of which the systems of state authority are established, interact and function.

Management Strategy of Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Mataram in the Digital Era

RRI Mataram is an independent, neutral and non-commercial Public Broadcasting Institution that serves to provide information broadcasting, education, healthy entertainment, social control, and maintain a positive image of the nation in the international community. In the digital era, which was the era of media convergence, RRI Mataram did not escape from efforts to remain in the midst of society. This study aims to determine the management strategy of LPP RRI Mataram in the face of the digital era. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with several steps, namely: Observation, interview, documentation, data analysis and conclusion. From the results of the study, the researchers formulated LPP RRI Mataram's management strategy using a SWOT analysis, including: understanding market share by presenting interesting and interesting shows to the community, maximizing and expanding networks of cooperation with various agencies, utilizing relations with the government, organizing programs for listeners, provide rewards for employees who excel, improve the quality of human resources by providing continuous training, conduct Joint Branding, add segmentation to program 2, improve program quality, and utilize other media as a medium to improve the existence of LPP RRI Mataram, and also complete broadcast systems with audio and video streaming, as well as fixing the RRI PLAY GO application, and minimizing technical problems with optimal device maintenance. Keywords: management strategy; radio; RRI Mataram; digital era

Iwi radio in the era of media convergence: The opportunities and challenges of becoming ‘more than radio.’

Operating for the past 30 years, New Zealand’s 'iwi radio' stations broadcast a mixture of te reo Māori and English language programming throughout the country. The 21 stations that presently operate were established as a strategy to improve upon the severe decline in the indigenous language. As radio stations, each initiative also affords individual Māori groups some autonomy in the mediated protection and promotion of indigenous identity. Collectively represented by Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori, the iwi stations stand apart from the highly-consolidated mainstream commercial and public service sectors, but are now similarly confronted with the challenge of a rapidly changing media landscape. Utilising convergence as a prominent, albeit contentious, descriptor of media transformation, this article analyses the response of the iwi radio sector to convergence processes. Initiatives that include the integration of web and social media and the establishment of a networked switching platform to share iwi content highlight parallel opportunities and challenges for the iwi radio stations as they strive to become ‘more than radio’ on limited resourcing. This discussion highlights the experiences of radio practitioners tasked with the preservation and progress of indigenous voices in an era of convergence, providing further contextual insight into contemporary accounts of media transformation, radio and Māori media.

History’s Impasse: Radical Historiography, Leftist Elites, and the Anthropology of Historicism in Southern France

The “historic turn” marked a new era of convergence between anthropology and history. However, recent research proposes that this anthrohistorical field is informed by a latent cultural historicism...